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So I am looking for a bit of advice. I have always marketed affiliate offers through either email or PPC. Now I know alot of you guys use landing pages, blogs etc and make some good coin. So I have setup a blog, using caffinated content to grab articles and wp affiliate pro to turn keywords in the blog into cloaked affiliate links.

Looking for some pointers using web methods, like I say, only really experienced in email and PPC driving traffic straight to the aff's website.

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Make sure you change up some of the text, especially the titles, or your google search traffic is probably going to suck. Use something like smart update pinger to ping the xml-rpc services (just use the recommended ones, no need to have a gigantc list) and you will get visitors from places like technorati.

That's why I mentioned to change the titles; even when you do so, it is inevitable that one or more of the posts you will be scraping will inevitably be republished in the same places you got them from. The author will eventually see their own stuff spit right back out from your site. A lot of them are cool with it if you provide a link back to the source, but you will eventually piss someone off enough to report your site and probably get you deindexed. Changing the titles will give your site a bit longer shelf life.

Don't overlook the power of your own feeds; make several pages (as opposed to posts) with good unique content and use them as your category pages. Then, make some category feeds from the pages. Exactly how you do that depends on what theme you are using, but generally you would put some code like this in the page:

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<?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&feed=RSS'); ?>
I also make entries in htaccess to point domain.com/category/feed to its respective feed page. When I do this, I seem to rank pretty well in the blog searches and sometimes the regular web searches, too.

edit: wp_list_cats is deprecated, but go to this page and it will show you what you need to do.
 
You need to change up the top of the blog. It really looks too empty. There is too much free white space.
 
Yea, the design I wasnt too fussed about until I see some traffic coming in. Once I see its worth spending some time on the looks I will change it a bit, prolly kick off with a new theme. I will just see what works.

Its getting traffic and clicks so it cant be that bad for less that 48 hours old.
 
Prolly not, thanks for pointing it out haha, like I say not paying too much attention to it for the moment until I see it is something worth the time.
 
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